With this partnership, NRL will facilitate incubation facility and mentoring to the Startups sponsored and selected by NRL through iDEATION at the established Technology Incubation Centre (TIC) of IIT-Guwahati.

Notably, it was in 2016 when the IIT-G had decided to throw open its state-of-the-art incubation centre to students from other educational institutions in the region.

The development comes within a month after Assam’s Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had inaugurated a state-owned incubator initiative called ‘Assam Startup The Nest‘ in Guwahati, which will facilitate growth of at least 1,000 startups over the next five years.

iDEATION was launched by NRL in July 2017 for nurturing and boosting a startup ecosystem in the North East and had also launched an initial fund of Rs 10 Crore as a grant for startup ventures in the region.

The first edition of the initiative saw funding to the tune of Rs. 1.29 crore being allotted to four selected startup projects as seed funding and scale-up funding.

The 2nd edition launched in February 2018, too, garnered a huge response from the intrepid entrepreneurs of the northeast.

Numaligarh Refinery is located at Morangi, Golaghat district, Assam in India is a joint venture between Bharat Petroleum, Oil India and Government of Assam.